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Yeah so I have to admit I was drunk one time on the air in my college radio days.  OK maybe a few more times but those days as a teenager were, well those days as a teenager.

Not like an adult as Pat Sajak and Vanna White were when they were a little blitzed on the air after downing a few cocktails at a close by Mexican restaurant where the top rated syndicated show  Wheel of Fortune was taped.

He was drunk.  Yeah drunk.

So back to my early radio days in college.  There was a bar down the street in the Temple University neighborhood.  I was the black guy that would take a bunch of white people to a ghetto neighborhood bar to get a bit plastered.  They never asked for ID to confirm that we were of age which was a good thing.  Cause we all would have been arrested.

But we weren’t.  So before we did the 5PM one hour news report, we were a bit tipsy before we went on the air.  And we were perfect in our style and delivery.  I really think some days alcohol does effect you positively when you just don’t give a hoot about what you’re doing in front of a mike.

But on Wheel of Fortune?

Show producer Harry Friedman must have crapped in his pants when he read this story.

During dinner breaks Pat and Vanna would go down the street to a Mexican restaurant and have a few margaritas before returning to finish taping Wheel of Fortune.  “Vanna and I would go across the street and have two or three or six,” margaritas said Sajak in an interview with ESPN which is the sports network for drunks.  So Pat fits right in with that sports network.  He also said they “would have trouble recognizing the alphabet” when doing the show trashed.

Wow!

“I have no idea if the shows were any good,” said Sajak.  Watch the interview.

Well this the last thing you’d want if you were the commissioner f the New York Police Department.  Or any police department.  Or anyone wearing a blue uniform attached to a badge and a gun.

Your own kid gets arrested.

FOX 'Good Day' Host Greg Kelly

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly is feeling that pain today and this one is at least a career-ender for Greg Kelly, host of FOX TV New York’s ‘Good Day’ morning show.  The son of the police commissioner has been accused of rape after having drinks with a woman at New York’s South Street Seaport on October 8th.  Now the woman reportedly got pregnant and had an abortion according to reports.

It’s always that liquor that will just ruin people’s lives and careers, ya think?

Greg Kelly was not on the air this morning after the woman reported the incident to police Tuesday.  The allegded assault took place at the woman’s law firm in downtown Manhattan.

This story even turns more crazy for NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.  He was approached at an event by the woman’s boyfriend who was so upset at the incident that he wanted to ensure the case would not be pushed under a rug by the NYPD because of Ray Kelly’s influence.  His office immediately turned the case over to City Attorney Cy Vance for investigation.

Lew Leone, Vice President and General Manager of WNYW TV which airs ‘Good Day’ said only that “Greg Kelly has requested some time off.”

As a guy we’d all like to be in this guy’s shoes.  For the record ladies when men see a girl who can hold her own in the world of sports it’s an absolute turn on.  There’s nothing hotter than a woman who knows sports.  Not the kind that just wants to see an athlete in tight NFL gear showing off his thigh muscles. “Oh isn’t he really hot,” some women will say about Tim Tebow then has if the pass he throw to his wide receiver in the end zone was a home run.

Guys like a guy’s girl.  Some chick that can converse about the triangle offense or knows the batting average and number of home runs Albert Pujols hit last year.

So whoever this blond lady is from Comcast Sports Net Chicago get on that list.  She’s totally hot and totally blond and totally and obviously know about sports.  And this guy’s guy knows it as he is all over her during a between periods shoot out to try to score a goal through a small opening at the goalie net.

Watch this video.  You gotta give dude his props though anyone standing next to this well versed female sports announcer would probably say the same thing to her.

This video is cute, and classic.  Oh and by the way when girls twittle with their hair as this babe does at the end of the video that’s a sign of sexual frustration.

I’m going to say this to be the for real “N” word in the verbiage of comedian Paul Mooney.  And if this is going on with just the list of black comics with medical issues over the years then it surely is happening in the African American male community in general when it comes to health issues.

Tracy Morgan

Too many of us are dying.  Dying short deaths because of the most simple appointment missed.  And that’s the appointment with their local doctor.  Too many just screw up and forget that their local doctor can save their lives.

Period.  End.  Stop.

Latino men have the same issue.  That bullshit machismo in the Latin male community.  A friend of mine just can’t get passed the prostate exam.  For the record for those of you who have not has a prostate exam or if you are female you might not know this procedure.  For the official record it’s when your doctor takes a glove, puts in on, inserts it in one of your most emotional cavities for a man to check the size of a man’s prostate.

Machismo!!!  Right?

Heavy D

That procedure save this writer a whole lot of headaches.  Yes I am a prostate cancer survivor.  And the reason I’m still walking is, well one word.  Life.  I like my life.  So I went classy.  Headed over to Robertson Boulevard in Beverly Hills and let my doctor make me his bitch for about 10 seconds.

I didn’t care.  Afterward I asked to meet me at Rage on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood.  OK maybe not but getting that procedure, seeing my blood count called a PSA move upward was not fun.  But here’s the thing.  It was so early in the process that I was diagnosed six years ago in the month of January and didn’t have to have the surgical procedure until May.

Oh yeah, I’ m black.

Some of us listen.  But not 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan.  He got sick, again.  This time at the Sundance Film Festival going on now in Park City, Utah.  He collapsed and was rushed to a local hospital.  TMZ.com has several witnesses claiming that the funny man was not so funny but “slurring his words…extremely intoxicate.”  His rep says no drugs or alcohol were found in his system.  He was subsequently released.

Tracy Morgan is just one black dude and to be honest the list goes on.  Some still here, some not.  Bernie Mac for instance.  He died of a disease called sarcoid.  Simple diagnosis, simple remedy of steroid inhalants.  You don’t have to die from sarcoid.  You really don’t.  Bernie Mac did, not taking care of himself.

We recently lost Heavy D.  Throw in Patrice O’Neal.  That was one funny dude.  Too many black and Latino brothers not getting the proper treatment prior to major issues.

Then good diet and exercise.  Case closed.

Patrice O'Neal Arriving at the 'Comedy Central's Roast of Charlie Sheen'

Since this blog is read by more women than men, ladies take note.  Get your man to get off his ass and go to the doctor.  Especially minority men.  It’s worth the probing in that special spot and certainly not work losing so many who are in their 40′s and 50′s.  Damn, that’s just too damn y0ung.

Cut the sugar, the carbs, the liquor and get a treadmill Tracy Morgan.  Like me.  Had no choice.  And I like to party big time.  But at some point you gotta slow down.  We truly don’t want to lose a funny guy like you.

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Well you can’t complain if you’re William Shatner.  For the last 14 years the former Star Trek Captain Kirk from the original series and movies has been the spokesperson on radio, television, online and print ads for the “name your own price” travel company.  That’s a long time for any spokesperson especially one that was not the original choice by Priceline.com way back when.

William Shatner

The first person Priceline.com wanted was James Earl Jones.  He was locked in to doing voice work for the phone company which has made him millions over the years.  The second target for Priceline.com was Bill Cosby who back then really didn’t think this thing called, um what’s it called, the World Wide Web was going anywhere.

Internet, sminternet was the Jello man’s thoughts when Priceline.com came to him.  And back then, well for Bill Cosby, what was a Priceline,com?

William Shatner

Then comes William Shatner who took charge of the voice work and out front guy for Priceline.com and he turned out to be the best person to rep the brand.  He was simply fantastic.

Today that run ends.  Shatner is doing his last run of commercials for Priceline.com today.

As his reign began as just the sell guy for the brand, he became the Priceline Negotiator later during his tenure as Priceline.com’s spokesperson and all day tomorrow the commercials will show the Priceline Negotiator and spokesperson killed off in a fiery crash.

William Shatner…The End.

For those of us who were real users of the Priceline.com brand we are going to see a change.  Where the “name your own price” deal gave users the ability to bid on airline tickets and hotel rooms.   Now they will offer a fixed price for their services and the “name your own price” philosophy will be shelved.

Wow, just line them up.  Divorce after divorce after divorce in show business.  And if you look at the entertainment business as a whole you could also throw in a little Kobe and Vanessa Bryant in the world of sports as another high profile break-up in the last couple of three years.

HEIDI KLUM AND SEAL

J-Lo and Marc are officially done.  Rumors abound about the union of Will Smith and his wife Jada.  Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries joke of a wedding and divorce.  Kelsey Grammer’s really high profile divorce which was really nasty along with Arnold the Sperminator and Maria Shriver.

And that’s just a short list.

Now comes word that Heidi Klum and Seal are about to call it a day for their marriage as word is around that paperwork will be filed in Los Angeles citing those as usual “irreconcilable differences” as the cause.

So that’s the report from TMZ.com.

Let’s head on over to People Magazine.  They’re reporting that the couple is “fighting” but “they’re not divorcing” yet another quote has them “weathering a rough patch” according to People.

Heidi Klum and Seal have been married since 2005 with four kids between them.  Three biological and the oldest girl a product of Heidi’s previous relationship as Seal legally adopted her.

Here we go with another creative commercial from those creative folks who want to sell us cars.  Specifically sell us Volkswagens.  And again we get a blast from the past with a Star Wars theme to this commercial but instead of that cute little kid dressed as Darth Vader this time we get singing dogs.

Yes singing dogs.  Or is it barking dogs?  Well barking dogs barking the Star Wars theme song and this commercial is absolutely funny and fascinating.  One of those times you must ask the question “how did they do that?”

The dogs bark the tune of the Imperial March and do it real well.  Enjoy.

Well as we said in the story below, the people tuning in to watch American Idoldropped to the ground like one of Tiger Woods girlfriends and the end of year three of Ryan Seacrest’s contract as host of the show could be coming to an end.

AMERICAN IDOL Host Ryan Seacrest

Seacrest signed a three year, $45 million contract with American Idol a couple of years back and now comes word that the radio DJ, TV show producer, restaurateur, future cable TV owning guy may be on the outs at the show.  Hey let’s be real when the ratings keep dropping as they have over the last few years to pay Ryan 15 million big ones gets a bit costly for the network.

According to reports from several source, Ryan Seacrest has been asked to take a pay cut at American Idol and he apparently doesn’t seem to be happy about the drop.  In fact the cut seem to be so significant that producer Nigel Lythgoe says he will make up the difference in the reduction in salary paid to Seacrest according to the folks over at TMZ.com.

The full story about Ryan Seacrest’s removal from American Idol comes from a story in the New York Post where you can link to the story below.

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/seacrest_could_be_out_NSUbB94p25nVu7uQoDdOEL

'American Idol' - Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez, Randy Jackson and Ryan Seacrest

Oh wow!  American Idol is back?  A lot of viewers simply forgot to tune in compared to previous years but that was expected as American Idoll is nowhere near the show that it used to be and anyone that expected anything more is dreaming.

American Idoll premiered last night on FOX and one way to gauge the prominence of the long running competition show is how it trends on search engines.  Did anyone see the words American Idol on a Google search?  Nope cause I check what’s hot and trending every day.

Contestant Shannon Magrane, with her family on 'American Idol'

Is the excitement, the vigor, the energy of American Idol in the past?  Well close to 25% less peeps tuned in to American Idollast night which is not good for the franchise.  Now let’s be clear.  FOX still won the night beating out all competitive networks but losing five million viewers is not the way to launch a show that used to be the foundation of the FOX Network.

For the record the drop in last night’s premiere was the biggest decline since the show began shedding viewers over the last few years.

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